Each entry in the Intuitive Experience Database is identified by Type, Form and Kind. Here are abbreviated descriptions of each taken from the Journaling Guidelines located in another part of this web site. This demonstrates the diversity of intuitive experiences a person can have.

Type of Experience

1. Personal:

An experience is personal when it involves insight about personal circumstances or relationships.

2. Professional:

An experience is identified as professional when it involves an insight about career circumstances or relationships.

3. School:

This type often falls somewhere in between the Personal and Professional categories.

4. Transcendent:

Some experiences have a quality that transcends the first three even though they may have implications for your personal, professional or school life.

Form of Experience

1. Body:

Spontaneous movements of the body that express the intuitive experience.

2. Sensation:

Hot flashes, cold shivers, hair standing on end, i.e. sensations that are relatively free of emotional overtones.

3. Emotion:

Joy, attraction, avoidance, sadness, anger, etc. that may be accompanied by a sensation.

4. Thought:

A word or phrase that is heard as if it is spoken or as an idea that comes to mind.

5. Image:

A visual picture that is recognized as if seen or as it appears in the mind's eye.

6. Epiphany:

A body movement, sensation, feeling, thought or image that transcends the normal range of experience.

Kind of Experience

1. Decision:

An indication of a specific course of action from among distinct alternatives for a problem that an individual is trying to solve.

2. Solution:

A recognition of what a person should do about a situation that has been perplexing them.

3. Suggestion:

A direction to follow up in some way on a situation that has presented itself to the individual.

4. Impulse:

An impetus to suddenly do something for reasons that are not fully understand at the moment.

5. ESP:

An intimation that something has happened or is going to happen including "extra sensory phenomena" or ESP.

6. Understanding:

A realization of the meaning behind or seeing the deeper purpose in life experience.

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